COLLEGE STATION, December 13 - Texas A&M University has established an institute aimed at protecting the nation's food and
water supply against terrorism.

Regents approved the Institute for Countermeasures against
Agricultural Bioterrorism on Dec. 7, nearly two years after its
conception.

Regent Anne Armstrong credited the foresight of Neville Clarke, the
institute's director, for the timely implementation of the new center.
"A lot of planning had been going into the work of an institute to
counter agricultural terrorism long before the attacks of Sept. 11,"
she said. "Dr. Clarke had put us well ahead on this issue."

The institute already has received about $400,000 in fiscal 2002
funding from U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research
Service to get the institute going, said Ed Hiler, Texas A&M vice
chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences.

"This issue is of utmost importance to Texas and the entire United
States," Hiler noted. "Our food, agriculture and water are at risk,
and we need to be prepared. We want to formalize this institute to
solidify our role in developing the research to prevent and counter
terrorist attacks."

Hiler added that Experiment Station scientists have been researching
ways to counter terrorism for decades.

Clarke, a career Air Force officer and former director of the
Experiment Station, said the events of Sept. 11 only heighten the
importance of protecting agricultural production and the food supply
from attacks.

"The system has been adequate in the past for prevention and
response," he said, "but it sorely needs new vision to be able to
respond to these new types of attacks."

Part of that "new vision" includes the use of surveillance networking,
satellite imaging, field and laboratory diagnostics using
biotechnology, and computerized information systems. "There's the
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